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Half of Russians back 1956 repression in Hungary

Half of Russian people surveyed by independent pollster Levada said the Soviet Union was right to use tanks to crush the Hungarian uprising in 1956; 6 percent said they were strongly opposed to the crackdown, which killed 2,000 people. The Russian ambassador to Budapest was summoned by the Hungarian government after Russian state TV said on Sunday that the uprising was a Western coup that liberated former Nazis from prison.